	Home How to Buy About SGI Worldwide
		...

IRIX 6.5 » Books » Developer »
Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
(document number: 007-3426-004 / published: 1999-05-21) table of contents | additional info | download
find in page

binary_function<Arg1, Arg2, Result>


Category: functors	Component type: type

Description

Binary_function is an empty base class: it contains no member functions or member variables, but only type information. The only reason it exists is to make it more convenient to define types that are models of the concept Adaptable Binary Function. Specifically, any model of Adaptable Binary Function must define nested typedefs. Those typedefs are provided by the base class binary_function.

Example

struct exponentiate : public binary_function<double, double, double> {
    double operator()(double x, double y) { return pow(x, y); }
};

Definition

Defined in the standard header functional, and in the nonstandard backward-compatibility header function.h.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
`Arg1`	The function object's first argument type
`Arg2`	The function object's second argument type
`Result`	The function object's result type

Model of

Assignable, Default Constructible

Type requirements

Public base classes

None.

Members

Member	Where defined	Description
`first_argument_type`	`unary_function`	See below.
`second_argument_type`	`unary_function`	See below.
`result_type`	`unary_function`	See below.

New members

These members are not defined in the Assignable and Default Constructible requirements, but are specific to unary_function.

Member	Description
`first_argument_type`	The function object's first argument type. This is a `typedef` for the template parameter `Arg1`.
`second_argument_type`	The function object's second argument type. This is a `typedef` for the template parameter `Arg2`.
`result_type`	The function object's result type. This is a `typedef` for the template parameter `Result`.